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Beautiful Machine

Author : John Seelye
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Machine written by John Seelye and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in Seelye's series on the rivers of America in the American imagination, Beautiful Machine explores a critical, transitional period in American history, taking as its starting point the French and Indian War -- the event that determined domination of North America by an Anglo-American presence -- and ending with the opening of the Erie Canal -- the event that determined the geopolitical alignment that would guarantee a northeastern hegemony as the new nation moved West. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson figure prominently as visionaries, who saw American rivers as agents of national unity with the promise of linking Virginia's Potomac to the wealth of the Ohio Valley. - Jacket flap.

Machine Beauty

Author : David Gelernter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Machine Beauty written by David Gelernter and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a brand name in computer science" by "The New York Times Magazine", renowned scientist and visionary David Gelernter offers a fascinating and often humorous discussion of the critical role of beauty, elegance, and aesthetics in computer technology. Print features.

Machine Without Horses

Author : Helen Humphreys
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443432512
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Machine Without Horses written by Helen Humphreys and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the best—and most wonderfully experimental—historical fiction titles of the year. . . . Truly spectacular.” —Toronto Star What is an ordinary life worth? A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary and imagination is sparked. The brief words of memoriam describe a woman who was both extraordinary—eccentric, revered in her field, a renowned expert—but also utterly ordinary. How does a writer, intrigued by all that isn’t said, create a story, or capture an unknowable woman and all the secret passions, choices and compromises that make up a life? In Machine Without Horses, Helen Humphreys explores the real life and the imagined internal life of the famous and famously private salmon-fly dresser Megan Boyd, a craftswoman who worked for sixty years out of a bare-bones cottage in a small village in the north of Scotland. Humphreys, both present in the story and its architect, reveals with her inimitable style the complicated emotional landscape that can exist under even the most constant surface.

A History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures

Author : William Felkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures written by William Felkin and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Machine

Author : Susan Steinberg
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978916
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Machine written by Susan Steinberg and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author of Spectacle Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, she pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family, and learns that no one, not even she, is blameless. A daring stylist, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender, class, privilege, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written.

Electrical Construction and Maintenance

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Electrical Construction and Maintenance written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Social Machine

Author : Judith Donath
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262027011
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Social Machine written by Judith Donath and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New ways to design spaces for online interaction—and how they will change society. Computers were first conceived as “thinking machines,” but in the twenty-first century they have become social machines, online places where people meet friends, play games, and collaborate on projects. In this book, Judith Donath argues persuasively that for social media to become truly sociable media, we must design interfaces that reflect how we understand and respond to the social world. People and their actions are still harder to perceive online than face to face: interfaces are clunky, and we have less sense of other people's character and intentions, where they congregate, and what they do. Donath presents new approaches to creating interfaces for social interaction. She addresses such topics as visualizing social landscapes, conversations, and networks; depicting identity with knowledge markers and interaction history; delineating public and private space; and bringing the online world's open sociability into the physical world. Donath asks fundamental questions about how we want to live online and offers thought-provoking designs that explore radically new ways of interacting and communicating.

Heart of the Machine

Author : Richard Yonck
Publisher : Arcade
ISBN 13 : 195069111X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Heart of the Machine written by Richard Yonck and published by Arcade. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Readers of Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku, a New Look at the Cutting Edge of Artificial Intelligence Imagine a robotic stuffed animal that can read and respond to a child’s emotional state, a commercial that can recognize and change based on a customer’s facial expression, or a company that can actually create feelings as though a person were experiencing them naturally. Heart of the Machine explores the next giant step in the relationship between humans and technology: the ability of computers to recognize, respond to, and even replicate emotions. Computers have long been integral to our lives, and their advances continue at an exponential rate. Many believe that artificial intelligence equal or superior to human intelligence will happen in the not-too-distance future; some even think machine consciousness will follow. Futurist Richard Yonck argues that emotion, the first, most basic, and most natural form of communication, is at the heart of how we will soon work with and use computers. Instilling emotions into computers is the next leap in our centuries-old obsession with creating machines that replicate humans. But for every benefit this progress may bring to our lives, there is a possible pitfall. Emotion recognition could lead to advanced surveillance, and the same technology that can manipulate our feelings could become a method of mass control. And, as shown in movies like Her and Ex Machina, our society already holds a deep-seated anxiety about what might happen if machines could actually feel and break free from our control. Heart of the Machine is an exploration of the new and inevitable ways in which mankind and technology will interact. The paperback edition has a new foreword by Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, a pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence, as well as the cofounder and CEO of Affectiva, the acclaimed AI startup spun off from the MIT Media Lab.

Most Wonderful Machine

Author : Judith A. McGaw
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691194645
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Most Wonderful Machine written by Judith A. McGaw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fascination with machinery, paper mill owners and workers made an industrial revolution in Berkshrie County, Massachusetts. This book examines their experiences from the era of craft production through several generations of sustained technological change to answer two major questions: What accounts for the widespread and rapid adoption of machines in nineteenth-century America? And how did the new technology help to transform America socially and culturally? Rejecting technological determinism, Judith McGaw effectively integrates labor, business, social, and women's history with technological history to bring to life the human decisions that made mechanization possible. In compelling detail the author offers new explanations of how change in the craft era paved the way for industrialization and how paternalism worked in small-scale industry. She also provides a thoughtful discussion of the interaction between evangelical culture and the emerging industrial order, and a close analysis of how nineteenth-century gender distinctions fostered mechanization. Judith A. McGaw is Assistant Professor of History of Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Perpetual Motion Machine

Author : Brittany Ackerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597096911
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Perpetual Motion Machine written by Brittany Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a brother's high school science project--a perpetual motion machine that could save the world-- The Perpetual Motion Machine is a memoir in essays that attempts to save a sibling by depicting the visceral pain that accompanies longing for some past impossibility. The collection has been a science project in its study of memory, in the calculation and plotting of the moments that make up a childhood. The preparation has been "in the field" in that it is built upon the gathering of lived experience; the evidence is photo albums, family interviews, and anecdotes from friends. The project has been one giant experiment--to see if they can all make it out alive.

The Artist in the Machine

Author : Arthur I. Miller
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262539624
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Artist in the Machine written by Arthur I. Miller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass the creations of humans. Today's computers are composing music that sounds “more Bach than Bach,” turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative—or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? In this book, Arthur I. Miller takes us on a tour of creativity in the age of machines. Miller, an authority on creativity, identifies the key factors essential to the creative process, from “the need for introspection” to “the ability to discover the key problem.” He talks to people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, encountering computers that mimic the brain and machines that have defeated champions in chess, Jeopardy!, and Go. In the central part of the book, Miller explores the riches of computer-created art, introducing us to artists and computer scientists who have, among much else, unleashed an artificial neural network to create a nightmarish, multi-eyed dog-cat; taught AI to imagine; developed a robot that paints; created algorithms for poetry; and produced the world's first computer-composed musical, Beyond the Fence, staged by Android Lloyd Webber and friends. But, Miller writes, in order to be truly creative, machines will need to step into the world. He probes the nature of consciousness and speaks to researchers trying to develop emotions and consciousness in computers. Miller argues that computers can already be as creative as humans—and someday will surpass us. But this is not a dystopian account; Miller celebrates the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence in art, music, and literature.

The Illustrated sporting & dramatic news

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated sporting & dramatic news written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Chapter of Science; Or, What is a Law of Nature?

Author : James Stuart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Chapter of Science; Or, What is a Law of Nature? written by James Stuart and published by . This book was released on 187? with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

WALNECK'S CLASSIC CYCLE TRADER, FEBRUARY 2002

Author : Causey Enterprises, LLC
Publisher : Causey Enterprises, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book WALNECK'S CLASSIC CYCLE TRADER, FEBRUARY 2002 written by Causey Enterprises, LLC and published by Causey Enterprises, LLC. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Warlike Woolwich: a history & guide

Author : William Thomas Vincent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warlike Woolwich: a history & guide written by William Thomas Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mechanics Magazine

Author : John I Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Mechanics Magazine written by John I Knight and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farm Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Farm Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: